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GB Vets vs Dorking Lawn Tennis and Squash Club
title Dorking teamsMatch Result Dorking Lawn Tennis and Squash Club 3 GB Vets 2
1. Stuart Jull beat Mick Lowe 3/1 (13/15,15/12,15/10,15/11)
2. Mark Ambrose beat Kim Ricks 3/0 (15/9,15/10,15/9)
3. Bill Lovesey lost to Derek Wright 0/3 (10/15,6/15,11/15)
4. Tony Heron beat Richard Mosley 3/1 (8/15,15/10,15/9,15/6)
5. David Buckley & Rob Crayston lost to Kim Ricks & Derek Wright 0/2 (14/15,13/15)

2024 Club Championships
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The 2024 Club Championships were held at Colets Health and Fitness Club on Sunday 8th September 2024.

Click here for the event report.
Click here for the results held on League Master.
Click here for the photo gallery. 

Chair's Annual Report 2024
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A quieter year than our 60th but still busy. Our members have had many successes in European, National and Regional events with a good number selected for the Home Internationals.

Multi players fixtures again proved popular against the Home Nations, Civil Service, Fire Brigade, Oxford Uni and many others. Tours to Ireland, York and Jersey were much enjoyed. RAC, Woodcote Park, hosted a first Doubles fixture against the Jesters and our annual Festival. The Escorts won for the first time with the title going to the winners of the last and best contest of the day.

A new Website has added a great deal of extra functionality for members, making it easier to opt into matches and find information. Brian Brock has set this up for us and it is an excellent addition for our Club.

We have lost some “big hitters” at the AGM. Philip Ayton will stand down as President. Nigel Belle will stand down after 17 years as Secretary, Newsletter editor and Archivist. Geoff Howes will be calling time after 18 years running the tournaments. All receive our sincere thanks.

Our committee members have provided sterling service in the past year. Treasurer, Robert Smith and Fixtures Sec, Nick Sheppard put in a lot of unseen work as do other committee members running Tours, Golf and writing Newsletter articles. GBV would be the poorer without them.

The Website and Newsletters provide a great deal more insight than my thumbnail sketch of the past year and I whole heartedly commend them to you as evidence of this thriving organisation.

Ian Graham
Chair

GB Vets Golf Day at Surbiton Golf Club
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On Monday 9th September 17 hardy golfers assembled at Surbiton Golf Club for the 9th Annual GB Vets Golf Day. The weather was splendid for early autumn and with the course in fantastic condition, we had the prospect of a great day’s golf ahead of us.

There were prizes for the best scores for men and separate prizes for the women.

Overall winner was Geoff Howes with Allen Barwise runner-up. Catherine Ruffle won the Ladies with Gitti Rosser second. Also, various other awards were given for longest drives and nearest the pin.

Nigel Belle was successful in getting nearest the pin, which was an improvement on his usual wooden spoon prize.

Jane Belle joined us and enjoyed a day on the course driving a buggy for Gitti.

After the golf we were treated to a fine 2-course meal with the usual post-golf analysis of where we need to improve our game.

The 10th Golf Day will be held, again at Surbiton, on Monday September 8th 2025

Geoff Howes

GB Vets vs The Bourne Club
title Match result The Bourne Club 5 - GB Vets 2
1. Jon Menhinick beat. Peter Call 3-2 (15-13, 10-15, 15-7, 8-15, 15-9)
2. Steve Jackson beat David Stanton 3-0 (16-14, 15-11, 15-10)
3. Peter Johnson beat Peter Culver3-1 (9-15, 15-13, 15-13, 15-10)
4. Allan Davison beat John Petruscke 3-0 (17-15, 15-9, 15-12)
5. Paul Hudson-Ognall lost to David Parker 0-3 (15-8, 15-12, 15-10)
6. Misha Kluyver lost to Kim Ricks 1-3 (15-12, 15-13, 15-12, 15-13)
7. Howard beat Derek Wright 3-2

GB Vets vs Escorts
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Full report to follow.

Match result Escorts 2 - GB Vets 2

1. Steve Illingworth lost to Steve Wright  1-3 (9/11, 6/11, 11/9, 11/13)
2. Ash Chakraborty beat Karen Hume 3-2 (3/11, 15/13, 11/5, 9/11, 11/2)
3. David Parker lost to Mick Murray 1-3 (11/4, 2/11, 6/11, 8/11)
4. Richard Moseley beat Robert Smith 3-0 (11/9, 11/6, 11-6)

60's Event To Celebrate The GB Vets 60th
The final weekend of our Anniversary year saw 60 members attend a 60’s disco for our final 60th year celebration, and what a night!

Huge thanks go to Karen Hume who had the original idea and went on to organise the whole thing superbly. Karen was ably assisted by Robert Smith and a lot of mannequins (not, I hasten to add, other committee members)! Jane and Nigel Belle provided original clothes from the 60’s that they had worn themselves. Thanks to Nick Wise who produced excellent posters and LP covers (gratis!) and Karen with lots of helpers dressed the room.There were clothes and masks for those wanting pictures.

There was fantastic bowl food x 4 – Cone of scampi & chips, Thai green curry, lamb tagine and chocolate brownies all served by the hard working Colet’s bar staff with Geoff Howes’ liaison work behind the scenes. Thanks too to Geoff for all his professional photos.

Our disco, DJ Andy Bailey, played a string of great hits that had most guests on the floor (dancing not passed out!) at some stage. “Dad” dancing was great and hard to watch in equal measure, but the epic Chubby Checkers “Let’s Twist Again” revealed just how many of our playing members can still bend their knees! There were great outfits from Belles Elvis Presley, Gollaglee’s Clint Eastwood, and Bradburn’s Ian Gillan. Prizes though, went to the ladies with Jackie Redfern wearing her Mum’s original crimplene dress and Lynne Davies ’Mary Quant combo (£18 off EBay) taking the bottles of champagne. Geoff Walton’s magic tricks kept everybody entertained and he was thanked for travelling a long way to perform. The photos in this Newsletter and on the website will illustrate what a brilliant evening was had by all. Karen you are a star!!

Ian Graham

Photos from the day

Next 10 Upcoming Events
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Thinking of Joining?
The club is actively seeking to broaden the membership throughout the United Kingdom.

Please download a Membership Form, sign up your friend and send in to the Hon. Secretary, remembering to fill in all Bank details!

Nigel Belle, The Red House, Church Road, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 6EA. Tel: 019595 65444.

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Latest Match Reports
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Latest Pages
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50th Anniversary Book
Having celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2013, please remember that the Anniversary Book is still available.

Click here for details.

New Kit Available
title New kit is available - go online. Go to the iPROSPORT website, click on 'Club Zone', scroll down and click on the GB Vets logo and then follow on-screen instructions.

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